shallot
(noun) small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning
shallot, eschalot, multiplier onion, Allium cepa aggregatum, Allium ascalonicum
(noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
shallot
(noun) aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shallot (plural shallots)
A vegetable in the onion family.
Allium ascalonium.
Allium oschaninii.
Any small onion.
(New Orleans) A scallion
Source: Wiktionary
Shal*lot", n. Etym: [OF. eschalote (for escalone), F. Ă©chalote. See Scallion, and cf. Eschalot.] (Bot.)
Definition: A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 June 2025
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); “his detention was politically motivated”; “the prisoner is on hold”; “he is in the custody of police”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
